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WANJIN JEON

Toronto,Ontario

Summary

Experienced in senior-level operations, production and distribution. Promotes wide range of experience in planning and leading operations in manufacturing environment. Well-versed in contributing to company growth by implementing continuous process improvement, production optimization and high-performance team development. Experienced with union labor and contract negotiations.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Production Manager

POSCO
Gwangyang, Jeollabukdo
08.2004 - Current

1. Comprehensive Production Management (Oct 2004 - Aug 2009, May 2012 - Apr 2015)

- Developed production and operation plans for 27 plants at Gwangyang Steel Works

- Monitored and managed overall production, considering key indicators

(cost, delivery, yield, operation rate, utilization rate, defect rate, etc.).

- Determined mill allocation and production LOT for each product and process.

[Key Projects and Achievements]

- Optimized and standardized automotive steel manufacturing process

: Increased production from 2 to 6 million tons per year.

- Improved chronic process load issues, reducing production lead time

: Improved delivery compliance rate from 70% to 98%.

- Enhanced product comprehensive yield through process-specific defect improvements

: Increased overall yield from 89% to 92%. Raw and Subsidiary Materials Supply and

2. Storage Management (Sep 2009 - Apr 2012)

- Managed supply and inventory, storage yards for coke, quicklime, and scrap.

[Key Projects and Achievements]

- Systematized and standardized inventory transaction management for scrap.

- Planned and executed the establishment of a new eco-friendly scrap yard.

- Reduced substandard scrap intake by enhancing the purchased scrap inspection process

: decreased scrap-related defects from 21 to 5 cases per year.

3. Internal Transportation Management (Jan 2017 - Dec 2017)

- Optimized transportation equipment and routes between yards, plants, and processes

- Identified and mitigated risk factors across transportation routes for various materials.

[Key Projects and Achievements]

- Established the optimal number of operating transportation units between processes

: Achieved 2million dollars savings by retiring 2 outdated transport units

- Reduced loading and unloading lead time for transported materials

: Decreased from 600 to 300 seconds.

4. Production Process and System Improvement (Jan 2018 - Dec 2019)

- Identified and improved bottleneck processes

- Enhanced and maintained ERP and MES systems.

[Key Projects and Achievements]

- Streamlined product packaging methods, resolving packaging bottlenecks

: packaging cost reduced by 5 billion KRW/year

- Led plant system improvement tasks for company-wide MES 3.0 upgrade, including issue

identification, integration, and progress management.

5. Employee Labor Relations and Safety Management Planning (Jan 2020 - Dec 2021)

- Executed special executive-directed tasks related to

- Planned executive-led activities such as meetings, events, and reward programs for

overall labor relations activities

- Developed and implemented on-site safety audit plans.

[Key Projects and Achievements]

- Collected and resolved issues from the labor union

- Supported the establishment of a field-led safety management culture

: Reduced safety incidents in the assigned department from 2 to zero.

6. Product Warehouse Storage & Customer Shipment Management (Jan 2022 - Present)

- Managed the operation and investment of transportation and shipping equipment

(trailers, cranes, unloaders, forklifts, etc.).

- Oversaw product shipments by various means (land, sea, rail), addressed urgent

customer issues, and pursued workforce efficiency through automation of shipping

processes.

[Key Projects and Achievements]

- Implementing remote fault resolution for product warehouse cranes (ongoing, 57 units),

- automating product shipping dock unloaders (15 units, ongoing)

- Improving product shipping dock layout and unloader investment (ongoing),

- Improving high-risk operations during product ship loading (ongoing).

Education

MBA - Business Management

Yonsei University Global MBA
Seoul
12-2016

Skills

  • Production Planning
  • Production Management
  • Inventory management
  • Warehouse management
  • Process Improvement
  • Six Sigma
  • Inbound and Outbound Management
  • Logistics Management
  • Process technology
  • Logistics planning
  • Production data analysis
  • Cross-functional teamwork
  • Safety management
  • Safety monitoring
  • Capacity planning
  • Production optimization

Languages

Korean
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Production Manager

POSCO
08.2004 - Current

MBA - Business Management

Yonsei University Global MBA
WANJIN JEON